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By John Di Capua, MD, Chief Executive Officer Great healthcare leaders are selfless, patient-focused, team-builders who have learned that no one individual always has the right answer. To solve healthcare’s big problems, you must be consensus-driven, accountable, and able to execute o

By Shawn Campbell, MD It was a crazy Friday and I was the on-call/charge anesthesiologist running the OR. Last thing I needed was to keep hearing my phone pinging. Emails, emails and more emails…nursing requests, surgeon requests, OR 4 is running late and we have an upset patient, Ort

By Barbara Cerrone, Senior Director of Marketing & Corporate Communications I recently saw the movie Hidden Figures and was impressed with both the performances and engrossing story it told of three black women who, without fanfare or credit, managed to quietly change the course

By Michael DiPeri, CRNA, MSN, Regional Director for CRNA Affairs Novelist, playwright and a social commentator, J.B. Priestly once said, “The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” Mr. Priestly’s life began 18 years after Alexander Graham Bell was awar

By Leslie Russo, SVP of Human Resources In a recent meeting with a new colleague, he discussed a concept that he had used at another company, asking me if I knew my say-do ratio. My say what? The concept of say-do ratio, also known as walk-talk gap or credibility quotient, is the co

By Vince Vilasi, MD, MBA, CEO Anesthesiologists are seeing several changes in their practice as healthcare moves toward value-based payment models – and with our unique role in this arena, anesthesiologists must have a seat at the table. As anesthesiologists, we’re optimally positione

By Elizabeth Welch Marsh, MD “Teamwork may just be hard in certain lines of work. Under conditions of extreme complexity, we inevitably rely on a division of tasks and expertise—in the operating room, for example, there is the surgeon, the surgical assistant, the scrub nurse, the circ

By John Fiorillo, Director of Healthcare Analysis Healthcare organizations have access to vast amounts of data, so why do they struggle to leverage this valuable asset? According to a recent Gartner survey, the number one investment priority for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) acros

By Barbara Cerrone, Senior Director of Marketing & Corporate Communications Meetings – love them or hate them, they’re here to stay. According to themuse.com, a leading online career resource, the percentage of time we spend in meetings is, well, startling. They estimate the avera